TOP TEN
BESTSELLERS AT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES for the week of October 24
FICTION
1. THE DIAGNOSIS by Alan Lightman
2. THE NIGHT LISTENER by Armistead Maupin
3. INTERPRETER OF MALADIES by Jhumpa Lahiri
4. THE BEAST GOD FORGOT TO INVENT by Jim Harrison
5. MERRICK by Anne Rice
6. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER by Gregory Maguire
7. THE MARK OF THE ANGEL by Nancy Huston
8. THE AMBER SPYGLASS by Philip Pullman
9. LAWNBOY by Paul Lisicky
10. PLAINSONG by Kent Haruf
NONFICTION
1. ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY by David Sedaris
2. ALL SOULS by Michael Patrick MacDonald
3. NAKED by David Sedaris
4. CHERRY by Mary Karr
5. BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2000 edited by Alan Lightman
6. HITLER’S POPE by John Cornwell
7. CODE BOOK by Simon Singh
8. WOMAN: AN INTIMATE GEOGRAPHY by Natalie Angier
9. THE FEELING OF WHAT HAPPENS by Antonio Damasio
10. ON WRITING: A MEMOIR OF THE CRAFT by Stephen King
Compiled from figures at Bailey/Coy Books, Elliott Bay Book Company, and PAGES Books, News, & Internet.